Portrait of a Mother, Child, and Two Women

c. 1850

Luther Holman Hale

Associated Names
Luther Holman Hale

Artist, American, 1823 - 1885

The image shows three women and a baby, all seated and visible from the waist up. The woman on the left holds an infant on her lap. The women are positioned in a row, with the left woman having dark hair, styled in curls, and wearing a striped dress with a lace collar. The middle woman also has curled dark hair, is wearing a dark dress with a white collar, and has her hands in her lap. The woman on the right has dark hair, styled with a middle part and curls at the sides, wearing a dark dress with a high lace collar and patterned sleeves. The women wear brooches and possibly earrings. The background is plain, with an ornate decorative frame around the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 13.5 × 18.6 cm (5 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
    mat: 15.7 × 21.5 cm (6 3/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
    case (closed): 23 × 18 × 2.5 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/16 × 1 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.180.3


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles and Paul Basile; (Greg French, Jamaica Plain, MA), 2000; NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Wikidata ID

Q64157645

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